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Obama on 'Painful' Week of Shootings: America Is Not as Divided as It Seems
ignore the pleas of the black community
ignore the pleas of the black community
It's time to call out Obama brehs
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calixprynce
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please educate yourself on the plantation you live on . all that voting, political bs you nerds hollerin dont mean shyt if you a slave on the plantation
onthereal
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Obama been riding the cac agenda since he got elected. He working for them and cacs STILL don't like him. Ultimate sign of a c00n.
Kennedy went head to head with the CIA over Cuba, and head to head with the establishment over the Civil Rights Movement. We have to thank JFK just as much as we should have to thank MLK and Malcolm X and Garvey and all the others who got us as far as we are today. And he paid for it with his life. With great responsibility comes great sacrifice, which may include your life. Don't talk about "Change We Can Believe In" if you are scared to make real change, I don't know about you but I didn't vote for a patsy, I voted for a man who was campaigning to bring fundamental change to how America operates, and so far the only thing I'm seeing is the status quo maintained.
We went from "forward" to "let's not tick off the white folk"
Is this the "hope" I voted for? 
, y'all did this 
He's the boss, they gon' have to follow his orders and get fired. Unless of course you're claiming that white men serving the National Guard won't respect his orders on the basis of him being a black man
You want to be saved by the very people killing you off
The cops just gon' keep picking your people off one by one and incarcerating one by one until there is nobody left to walk the streets breh. Charmin azz nikkaz 
I'm not sure why y'all kept replying after this.
O.iatlhawksfan
Devoted Joel Embiid hater
I've been wondering this throughout this whole fiasco. George Bush would have got called out a long time ago
HERE THE ACTUAL JAMA ARTICLE: US Health Care Reform: Progress and Next Steps
President Obama Calls for ‘Public Option’ in Affordable Care Act
In medical journal article, president defends signature health law, acknowledges shortcomings
ENLARGE
President Barack Obama, in an article he wrote for the Journal of the American Medical Association, said Congress should add a public insurance option to the Affordable Care Act. PHOTO: MANUEL BALCE CENETA/ASSOCIATED PRESS
By
LOUISE RADNOFSKY
July 11, 2016 5:00 p.m. ET
33 COMMENTS
WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama, reviewing his signature health law six years into its implementation, is suggesting that Congress and his White House successor add a government-run, or public, insurance option to the Affordable Care Act and increase federal financial assistance for people to buy coverage.
Writing as Barack Obama, J.D., in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the president lauded the health-care overhaul and excoriated its opponents, arguing the law has sharply reduced the number of America’s uninsured and improved coverage for those who had it.
“The Affordable Care Act is the most important health care legislation enacted in the United States since the creation of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965,” he wrote. “Although partisanship and special interest opposition remain, experience with the Affordable Care Act demonstrates that positive change is achievable on some of the nation’s most complex challenges.”
The article appeared as a ‘special communication’ in which he offered evidence, findings, and a description of their relevance. Among its most striking sections were those in which he acknowledged the law’s shortcomings and advocated responses to them. In his call for a public option, he noted the existence of parts of the country with limited insurance competition, where customers may have no choice but to swallow high premiums.
The unusual piece—a sitting president has never before had an unsolicited piece published in the journal, White House staff said—reflects the president’s efforts to solidify the legacy of his signature law in his last year in office, especially as it comes under attack from Republicans who have vowed to repeal it.
It also arrives in the middle of an election campaign in which the health law is a defining issue for the two parties’ candidates for president and Congress.
The presumptive Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton, backs the addition of a public option. On the Republican side, GOP House leaders have released their platform to strike most of the health law, and create different and potentially more limited tax credits and insurer requirements so people could buy coverage on their own.
In addition to criticism of Republicans for seeking to repeal the law in the piece, Mr. Obama repeated his call for 19 states to extend eligibility for Medicaid to all low-income residents as part of the law. Those states say that neither their budget nor Washington’s can afford to expand the program further.
The president advocated new changes which are aimed at more current concerns about the law, including the number of options and prices for coverage on the exchanges.
The biggest insurers selling individual coverage through HealthCare.gov and state equivalents have begun to seek dramatic premium increases for 2017, saying they need to recoup losses from the first few years. Some have pulled their offerings entirely from certain areas or whole states, leaving areas of the country where residents may have only one carrier to buy from.
Many liberal members of Congress had fought bitterly in 2009 and 2010 for the law to include a public option that could be offered alongside private plans to people who don’t have access to coverage through a job or government program for specific groups of people such as Medicare. Mr. Obama said he had supported those members.
“More can and should be done to enhance competition in the Marketplaces,” Mr. Obama wrote. “Public programs like Medicare often deliver care more cost effectively by curtailing administrative overhead and securing better prices from providers. The public plan didn't make it into the final legislation. Now, based on experience with the ACA, I think Congress should revisit a public plan to compete alongside private insurers in areas of the country where competition is limited.”
Competition, however, hasn't been the only problem for the law. The single largest group of the remaining uninsured are people who could obtain coverage as a result of the law but choose not to, arguing that they are financially better off paying for care in cash than squeezing premiums into their budget.
Mr. Obama said one answer was boosting the financial assistance offered by the law to subsidize the cost of premiums for people with incomes between the poverty line and four times that much, which for a family of four extends to around $97,000 for 2016. That “would help middle class families who have coverage but still struggle with premiums,” Mr. Obama wrote.
The idea has been floated by some of the law’s most ardent advocates recently, but few others.
Aides said the president was suggesting offering larger subsidies to people who already qualified for them, rather than expanding above that range. Currently, the subsidies are on a sliding scale that is pegged to income and the local cost of coverage for individuals, leaving some plans almost free of charge to participants but with younger people at the higher end of the income range getting only slim discounts on coverage.
The increase could be funded by drawing on savings from the law coming in under budget in its early years, when premiums were lower, Mr. Obama suggested.
Adding a public option and boosting tax credits would both require congressional action, and that is unlikely this year, White House staff said. In his article, Mr. Obama made few overtures to the GOP-controlled House or Senate.
“Any change is difficult, but it is especially difficult in the face of hyperpartisanship,” he wrote, before accusing Republicans of acting in bad faith for refusing to support ideas they had supported earlier once they were part of the health law, and undermining its implementation through “inadequate funding, opposition to routine technical corrections, excessive oversight, and relentless litigation.”
Such criticisms have been traded between Mr. Obama and Republicans for the entire life of the Affordable Care Act, with GOP lawmakers countering that the law was pushed through by Democrats using secretive and aggressive tactics, and that Mr. Obama has since abused his executive authority to implement it.
Write to Louise Radnofsky at louise.radnofsky@wsj.com
President Obama Calls for ‘Public Option’ in Affordable Care Act
In medical journal article, president defends signature health law, acknowledges shortcomings
President Barack Obama, in an article he wrote for the Journal of the American Medical Association, said Congress should add a public insurance option to the Affordable Care Act. PHOTO: MANUEL BALCE CENETA/ASSOCIATED PRESS
By
LOUISE RADNOFSKY
July 11, 2016 5:00 p.m. ET
33 COMMENTS
WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama, reviewing his signature health law six years into its implementation, is suggesting that Congress and his White House successor add a government-run, or public, insurance option to the Affordable Care Act and increase federal financial assistance for people to buy coverage.
Writing as Barack Obama, J.D., in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the president lauded the health-care overhaul and excoriated its opponents, arguing the law has sharply reduced the number of America’s uninsured and improved coverage for those who had it.
“The Affordable Care Act is the most important health care legislation enacted in the United States since the creation of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965,” he wrote. “Although partisanship and special interest opposition remain, experience with the Affordable Care Act demonstrates that positive change is achievable on some of the nation’s most complex challenges.”
The article appeared as a ‘special communication’ in which he offered evidence, findings, and a description of their relevance. Among its most striking sections were those in which he acknowledged the law’s shortcomings and advocated responses to them. In his call for a public option, he noted the existence of parts of the country with limited insurance competition, where customers may have no choice but to swallow high premiums.
The unusual piece—a sitting president has never before had an unsolicited piece published in the journal, White House staff said—reflects the president’s efforts to solidify the legacy of his signature law in his last year in office, especially as it comes under attack from Republicans who have vowed to repeal it.
It also arrives in the middle of an election campaign in which the health law is a defining issue for the two parties’ candidates for president and Congress.
The presumptive Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton, backs the addition of a public option. On the Republican side, GOP House leaders have released their platform to strike most of the health law, and create different and potentially more limited tax credits and insurer requirements so people could buy coverage on their own.
In addition to criticism of Republicans for seeking to repeal the law in the piece, Mr. Obama repeated his call for 19 states to extend eligibility for Medicaid to all low-income residents as part of the law. Those states say that neither their budget nor Washington’s can afford to expand the program further.
The president advocated new changes which are aimed at more current concerns about the law, including the number of options and prices for coverage on the exchanges.
The biggest insurers selling individual coverage through HealthCare.gov and state equivalents have begun to seek dramatic premium increases for 2017, saying they need to recoup losses from the first few years. Some have pulled their offerings entirely from certain areas or whole states, leaving areas of the country where residents may have only one carrier to buy from.
Many liberal members of Congress had fought bitterly in 2009 and 2010 for the law to include a public option that could be offered alongside private plans to people who don’t have access to coverage through a job or government program for specific groups of people such as Medicare. Mr. Obama said he had supported those members.
“More can and should be done to enhance competition in the Marketplaces,” Mr. Obama wrote. “Public programs like Medicare often deliver care more cost effectively by curtailing administrative overhead and securing better prices from providers. The public plan didn't make it into the final legislation. Now, based on experience with the ACA, I think Congress should revisit a public plan to compete alongside private insurers in areas of the country where competition is limited.”
Competition, however, hasn't been the only problem for the law. The single largest group of the remaining uninsured are people who could obtain coverage as a result of the law but choose not to, arguing that they are financially better off paying for care in cash than squeezing premiums into their budget.
Mr. Obama said one answer was boosting the financial assistance offered by the law to subsidize the cost of premiums for people with incomes between the poverty line and four times that much, which for a family of four extends to around $97,000 for 2016. That “would help middle class families who have coverage but still struggle with premiums,” Mr. Obama wrote.
The idea has been floated by some of the law’s most ardent advocates recently, but few others.
Aides said the president was suggesting offering larger subsidies to people who already qualified for them, rather than expanding above that range. Currently, the subsidies are on a sliding scale that is pegged to income and the local cost of coverage for individuals, leaving some plans almost free of charge to participants but with younger people at the higher end of the income range getting only slim discounts on coverage.
The increase could be funded by drawing on savings from the law coming in under budget in its early years, when premiums were lower, Mr. Obama suggested.
Adding a public option and boosting tax credits would both require congressional action, and that is unlikely this year, White House staff said. In his article, Mr. Obama made few overtures to the GOP-controlled House or Senate.
“Any change is difficult, but it is especially difficult in the face of hyperpartisanship,” he wrote, before accusing Republicans of acting in bad faith for refusing to support ideas they had supported earlier once they were part of the health law, and undermining its implementation through “inadequate funding, opposition to routine technical corrections, excessive oversight, and relentless litigation.”
Such criticisms have been traded between Mr. Obama and Republicans for the entire life of the Affordable Care Act, with GOP lawmakers countering that the law was pushed through by Democrats using secretive and aggressive tactics, and that Mr. Obama has since abused his executive authority to implement it.
Write to Louise Radnofsky at louise.radnofsky@wsj.com
you completely missed the point.You want to be saved by the very people killing you off
my point is simple. 13 to 16% vs white people is not a winning formula in a head up battle. thats just the facts. doesnt mean you shouldnt fight or defend yourself if its brought to you. just know odds are you wont win this fight/war. all you will do is defend yourself and let the chips fall where they may.
The truth is, the only way you can WIN. is for White people to stop being racist. Thats literally the only way. i know you dont like hearing that because it sounds defeatist. its not. its REALISM at its finest. There is a reality we live in. AMerica is not north of africa. where we could have our african brothers swarming the country getting our numbers up so if it went down, push comes to shove. we could literally fight and win. no sorry bruhs. we're north of mexico and south of canada.(more whites).
So ask yourself. how can racism white supremacy be fixed in the US without white people fixing themselves? It can't be. unless some plague hits and all white people or all the bad ones are wiped off the earth. other than a biblical plague. There is no WINNING for black people. lets face that reality.
if you ask me, whenever someone would put a camera in my face to ask me "so black man how do you feel about the recent events. " we need to stop answering. we need to stop going on these shows. we need to say "ASK Your father, uncle, brother(cause usually these people out there asking are white). Ask the white man/woman how they feel about it. ask them what are they going to do to stop it or not. Why is everyone so afraid to straight up ask WHITE PEOPLE. "AY WHITE PEOPLE, WHAT YALL GOING TO DO ABOUT YALL FATHERS,UNCLES, BROTHERS, KILLING US WILLY NILLY AND BEING RACIST? YALL GONE STOPE THE NONSENSE OR WHAT?